大学英语第二学期期末考试试卷大学毕业论文.docVIP

江西财经大学 06-07学年第二学期期末考试试卷 试卷代码： 34062A 授课课时： 32 课程名称： 大学英语II 适用对象： 06级本科非涉外班 试卷命题人 吴春英 试卷审核人 张善军，张生萍 Part I Reading Comprehension (skimming and scanning) (1 point each, 10 points) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to read the passages quickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet. For questions 1-7, mark A(for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; B(for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; C (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Build up Your Vocabulary Exactly what do you do during a normal day? How do you spend your time? Paul T. Rankin very much wanted an answer to that question. To get it, he asked sixty-eight individuals to keep an accurate, detailed record of what they did every minute of their waking hours. When he consolidated his findings, he discovered that the average individual spent 70 percent of his waking time doing one thing onlycommunication. That meant either reading, writing, speaking or listening. Put that evidence alongside of the research findings uncovered by the Human Engineering Laboratories. In exploring aptitudes and careers involving, among other things, data from 30,000 vocabulary tests given yearly, they discovered that big incomes and big vocabularies go together. Vocabulary, more than any other factors yet known, predicts financial success. And it all fits. Each word you add to your vocabulary makes you a better reader, writer, speaker and listener. Furthermore, linguistic scientists are quick to point out that we actually think with words. If that is so, new words make us better thinkers as well as communicators. No wonder more words are likely to mean more money. What better